This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 160 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 160 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In which country was "The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act" passed by parliament on 4 April 2009 (to come into force on 1 April 2010)? A) Jamaica. B) Belgium. C) India. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) India. 2. The statue of Mother of Kartli which overlooks Tbilisi, Georgia, carries what? A) A sword. B) A hammer and a sickle. C) A bow. D) A sword and a bowl of wine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A sword and a bowl of wine. 3. Which year saw the global population reach 5 billion? A) 1984. B) 2022. C) 1987. D) 2011. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1987. 4. In 2021 the theatre troupe Told By An Idiot created and staged a play centring on a little-known association during a transatlantic 1910 voyage by which two then little known people? A) Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel. B) Greta Garbo and Gloria Swanson. C) Cary Grant and Clark Gable. D) Buster Keaton and Claudette Colbert. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel. 5. In 2014 the Federal Police of Brazil began to uncover money laundering and corruption at the state-controlled oil company Petrobras, in the course of what operation? A) Operation Car Wash. B) Operation Oily Hands. C) Operation Big Boys. D) Operation Beady Eyes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Operation Car Wash. 6. For what did 1973 Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz receive his award? A) The discovery of vitamin K. B) Discoveries concerning organisation and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns. C) The discovery of tumour-inducing viruses. D) Discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Discoveries concerning organisation and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns. 7. Which of these states of the USA is landlocked? A) Utah. B) California. C) Florida. D) Texas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Utah. 8. Which of these, according to Greek mythology, was the chief of the Gods? A) Tane. B) Thor. C) Demeter. D) Zeus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Zeus. 9. In 2011 the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was a cartel of 12 countries:Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela and which other? A) USA. B) Indonesia. C) Canada. D) Libya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Libya. 10. The names of how many South American countries begin with the letter "B" ? A) 2. B) 1. C) 3. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 11. What did the Congress of Vienna, September 1814 to June 1815, aim to achieve? A) The basis for European economic union. B) An alliance and a method of countering Napoleon's rising power. C) A stable and benign equilibrium of power among the territories of Europe. D) A system for face to face formulation of international treaties. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A stable and benign equilibrium of power among the territories of Europe. 12. Ophanin, piscivorin, ablomin, latisemin and triflin, cysteine-rich secretory proteins that can reduce muscle contractions, are naturally found where? A) Leaves of the mimosa plant. B) Rubber tree sap. C) Most butterfly wings. D) Snake venom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Snake venom. 13. How many is a baker's dozen plus a gross plus a score? A) 157. B) 176. C) 177. D) 143. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 177. 14. Who set a water speed record of 225.6 m.p.h. at Coniston Water in September 1956? A) Henry Seagrave. B) Donald Campbell. C) Malcolm Campbell. D) Craig Breedlove. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Donald Campbell. 15. What is a group of owls called? A) Dither. B) Pride. C) Parliament. D) Hoarding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parliament. 16. Who, until 2016, was the only divorced wife of someone who later became president of the USA? A) Jane Wyman. B) Frances Folsom. C) Elizabeth Bloomer Warren. D) Katharine Hepburn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jane Wyman. 17. Where did the Eureka Rebellion happen? A) Syracuse, Sicily. B) Ballarat, Australia. C) Eureka, California, USA. D) Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballarat, Australia. 18. The name "John Paul Jones" is not a famous name in which of these professions? A) Athlete. B) Naval commander. C) Musician. D) Pope. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pope. 19. Jeeves is butler to which fictional character created by P G Wodehouse? A) Wootie Burster. B) Bertie Wooster. C) Brian Schuster. D) Barney Pastor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bertie Wooster. 20. What kind of ship was the Japanese "Hōshō", commissioned on 27 December 1922, the first purpose-designed ship of its kind to be commissioned anywhere in the world? A) Aircraft carrier. B) Submarine. C) Floating helicopter base. D) Battleship. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aircraft carrier. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGeneral QuizzesGeneral Knowledge Quiz 1General Knowledge Quiz 2General Knowledge Quiz 3General Knowledge Quiz 4General Knowledge Quiz 5General Knowledge Quiz 6General Knowledge Quiz 7General Knowledge Quiz 8General Knowledge Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books